You're starting to talk about the Achilles' heel of medicine, possibly
an endless point, mind you.
I completely agree on how Andrew exemplified it, and how did Wayne
stretched the question.
Fernando.
Chris Barker wrote:
> :-)
>
> Sorry Nico
>
> I was sort of aiming that in AndrewF's direction, but I also meant in
> -- in general terms. I am an instructor and teacher, but an eclectic
> one. I am qualified to teach people to fly, but I also lead and
> manage (when I have to) for which I am trained and have practised.
>
> Specialists *tend* not to want to do the other stuff, like managing --
> budgets, people, planning motivating etc .... And you have to *want*
> to do all the tedious tasks that go with managing to be successful at
> it; there is nothing worse than a bad manager who has too much control.
>
> Andrew was pointing out that the people who did the caring best were
> the specialists, whereas the managers tended to want to make the most
> effective use of resources. The institution that gets that balance
> right for its patients might not be able to make the budgets stretch
> for the year and then will not exist to care for its patients.
>
> Chris
>
> On 27 Dec 2008, at 07:00, Nicoletta Da Ros wrote:
>
>
>> not *all* teachers... some of us are not that bad :) maybe a bit
>> scatterbrained... but after all, we don't have anybody's life in our
>> hands (i speak for higher education teachers/instructors...)
>>
>> nico.
>>
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